University of California Berkeley - Blue and Gold Yearbook (Berkeley, CA)

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university meetings The occasion of the first University Meeting of the year 1956-1957 was to honor the 50th Anniversary of the establishment of the Student Health Center. Chancellor Clark Kerr presided over the meeting and Dr. William Don- ald, director of the health service, spoke on the activities and achieve- ments of the University health program during the past 50 years. Also speaking of his impressions of his recent trip to Russia, was Luis W. Alvarez, who attended an International nuclear physics congress in Moscow. The second University Meeting was to welcome students from the eight campuses who were participating in the activities of All-U Week End. The annual Christmas University Meeting was held in the Men ' s Gym the week before vacation and featured music presented by the University Chorus and the University Symphony Orchestra. They per- formed many traditional works including the familiar Hallelujah Chorus from Handel ' s Messiah. The traditional Christmas message was delivered by Joel Hildebrand, professor of Chemistry, and the evening was completed by everyone joining in singing favorite Christmas carols. 16

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architecture Four years have passed since the modernization of the curriculum at the College of Architecture; the traditions of which the Architect is so fond have changed: gone are the renderings of plaster busts; gone is the Beaux Arts grading system; and lost is some of that small college atmosphere which used to pleasantly surprise newcomers in Architecture. Fortunately, some traditions are left. Architects still swill cokes, draw pictures in the most improbable places, drink coffee at Cooper ' s Northgate, and stay up all hours before a problem is due. They still have costume balls and tours, and continue to wax enthusiastically over the old temporary Architecture Building. Sometime in the 1960 ' s they will have to transfer their affections when their new quarters are built, and the old Ark is finally demolished after more than fifty years of good service. 18